Joseph wants to buy tickets for the baseball game and a team hat to wear to the game He has 34.25. If the hat costs 12.50 and tickets cost 7.25 each. how many tickets can he buy

Answer 1

To determine how many tickets Joseph can buy, we first need to calculate how much money he has left after buying the hat.

1. Subtract the cost of the hat from Joseph's total amount: \[ 34.25 - 12.50 = 21.75 \]

2. Now, we need to see how many tickets he can buy with the remaining amount. Each ticket costs 7.25. We divide the remaining amount by the cost of a ticket: \[ 21.75 \div 7.25 \approx 3 \]

3. To confirm, we can multiply the number of tickets by the ticket price and see if it stays within his budget: \[ 3 \times 7.25 = 21.75 \]

Since the total cost of 3 tickets (21.75) matches the remaining amount he has after buying the hat, Joseph can buy 3 tickets.